Although the officer may be intimidating and might make you believe that you must comply with everything, you do not.

If you have just had been arrested for a DUI, you need to know some very important information to prevent long-term consequences.

Once you have been arrested on suspicion of a DUI, your potential consequences depend on the circumstances surrounding the arrest, if people were injured, or if any property was damaged. 

A DUI charge can get worse when elevated to an Aggravated DUI charge. A DUI can be upgraded to an Aggravated DUI for a couple of reasons:

The DMV must hear from a defendant within ten days of the arrest to set up a DMV hearing. If a defendant does not set this up within ten days, the DMV will suspend the license, and the right to a hearing is forfeited.

So you got a DUI, but you don’t want one mistake to hold you back for the rest of your life. You may be able to expunge your DUI from your record thanks to Penal Code 1203.4 PC.1.